koush/android_bootable_recovery — Issue #18: tar backups aren't suitable for boot-partitions on omap-devices
Author: mali1
Created: 2011-12-02 11:37:14+00:00
State: open

When making a tar-backup (standard behavior in CWM 5) of the boot-partition (FAT32) on a device with omap-cpu (e.g. Nook) there is a good chance that the filename (in terms of case sensitivity) changes. On other partitions, thats no problem, since FAT should be case insensitive, but the internal microcode of the omap-cpu executes the bootloader only if its name is "MLO", a file called "mlo" will not get executed.
To avoid this, I think the backup of the boot-partition should be a raw image.